Sentences with phrase «new synthetic amino acid»
«New synthetic amino acid for emerging class of drugs.»
https://www.sciencedaily.com/ Not exact matches
«Synthetic amino acid enables safe, new biotechnology solutions to global problems.»
The new code allowed the team to link growth of the bacteria to synthetic amino acids not found in nature, establishing an important safeguard that limits the spread and survival of organisms in natural environments.
This year he announced a new E. coli that can manufacture its own 21st amino acid, making it the world's first truly synthetic, man - made form of life — an autonomous bacterium that would survive quite nicely on its own, even if it were thrown in the garbage.
Researchers working in the new field of synthetic biology can imagine other building blocks: different proteins, amino acids (the core components of proteins), and metabolic systems that would work just as well as, or perhaps even better than, the ones we know.
This new approach to manipulating life — along with explorations of artificial DNA, the creation of novel amino acids, and controlled evolution in the lab — has been dubbed synthetic biology, and Keasling, 42, is one of its chief engineers.